Conveyer and elevator belt



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File- April 28. 1959 CONVEYER AND LL-LVATOH BELT INVENTOR. Edward E. ToeWS ATTORNEY.

Patented Dec. 15, 1942 UNlTED STATES PATENT oppiegl coNvErEn AND ELEvA'ron BELT Edward E; Toen, Halstead, Kans., assigner to Rub-n-slat cp., Halstead, Kans.

Application April 2s, 1939, serial No. .270,611

(ci 19a-19s) ICIaim.

My invention relates to an improvement in the construction of conveyer and elevator belts, and more particularly to those used on farm machinery, such as harvesters, binders, headers and the like.

The object of my invention is to provide a conveyer or elevator belt that will give longer service and eliminate much of the need for repairing by having the bars or ribs thereon vulcanized to the belt.

A serious defect has heretofore existed in the slats or ribs on conveyer or elevator aprons or canvases for harvesters and other purposes vbecoming loose on the belt or broken. 'I'he most common slats used are wood or metal, with a ilber flller, the slats usually being tacked ol' riveted to the apron or belting.

This defect is entirely overcome in my invention because the belting is rubberized, or covered by a rubber cover on which the slats or ribs are integrally formed and vulcanized to the textile belting base.

Now referring vto the accompanying drawing,-

Fig. 1 is a perspective view illustrating an application or use of my improved conveyer belting.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail perspective view, and partly in longitudinal section illustrating the simple form of my invention.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail perspective view, partly in longitudinal section, showing a flat rod set vertically in the rib as a reinforcement therefor.

Fig. 3A is the same as Fig. 3, except that the reinforcing rod is set horizontal in the rib.

Fig. 3B is the same as Fis. 3, except that-the reinforcing rod is shown to be in the form of an inverted T-shaped rod.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail perspective view, partly in longitudinal section, and illustrating the application of slide knobs along the edge of the belt intermediate the slats or ribs. Y

Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail perspective view, partly in longitudinal section, illustrating a device for joining the ends of the belt together, and also showing the application of a slide clip on the rubber slats or ribs. t

Fig. 6 is an enlarged transverse sectional view 0f the belt, the view being taken along the line VI-VI in Fig. 1.

Fig. 7 is a detail perspective view 'of the slide clip employed or shown on the slats or ribs in l'lg. 5.

Fig. 8 is a detail sectional view through the underlying end of the belt union shown in Fig. 5,

and illustrating the construction at the point 55 placed in the ribs I6 would where the clamp bolt through the underlying end 0f the belt.

Similar numerals of reference designate the.

same part throughout the several figures of the drawing.

In the drawing in Fig. 1 is seen what may be a feed house, or other similar structure I0 for a harvesting machine or the like, wherein slatted conveyer belts II run over rollers I2, or under guide shoes Il. This view is merely shown to illustrate the useof the belt and is not to be taken as limiting the use of the belt to harvesters and the like. The belt may be in any place where there is a conveying job to be done wherein a slatted or ribbed conveyer belt is practical to be used.

The belt comprises preferably a cross woven textile or fabric belt Il vas a `base or core for rubberization or rubber impregnation I5 and Ia for the purpose of protecting the belt and receiving rubber'slats to be vulcanized thereto. 'I'he covering I5 comprises a coating of rubber compound or gum covering on one side of the fabric I4. On the rubber coatingV l5 is a series of spaced apart rubber ribs I6 that may be of any desired shape or size and may be located in any desired position.

After the belt Il has been covered or rubberized as above described the slats I6 are built up, on the belt, of rubber compound, gum, or similar material which will readily bind itself to intimate union with the rubberization on the fabric body I4. This having ben done, the bottom side and edges of the fabric I4 are provided with a rubberization or covering I6a. prepared and applied in the same manner as described for the top covering I5, after which the entire assembly is placed under pressure, in a mould, and subjected to heat whereupon the several parts vulcanize to their adjacent part and the belt becomes one composite integral mass in the form of a belt v having ribs I6 thereon.

If the belt is a wide belt and the loads that the -belt is subjected to are such that the belt would sag between the points of its support at the sides thereof; or if the loads were such that they are concentrated at some certain point and would tend to pull the rib I 6 loose at that point, the rib I6 may be reinforced with a reinforcing element which, for illustration may be a flat bar I'I set vertically in the rib I6, or it may be a flat bar I8 set horizontally in the rib I6, or it may be a T-iron, or any other shaped reinforcement element I9 set in the rib I6. Any reinforcement be of such material,

size and shape, and would be so located or posi;

vtioned as to overcome weakness or undesirable flexing of the ribs or sagging of the belt as above mentioned.

here are frequent instances where conveyor belts oi this type are used that the belt is required to run in a line of travel counter to that oi passing around a roller, and in such instances the edges oi the belt are run under a curved guide shoe such as illustrated at i3 in Fig; l. If the ribs i6 are spaced close enough together that two or more of the ribs i6 are under the straight portion of the shoe i3 at the same time the belt will run quite smoothly, however if the ribs i t were spaced further apart there would be a oppng motion imparted to the belt as the ribs it were forced under the shoe i3 at one end thereof and another `one of the ribs i6 left the shoe i3 at the other end thereof.

In order to avoid this hopping motion of the belt when the ribs i6 are spaced far apart, l have provided a series of knob-like elements 2i! that are the same height as the ribs i6 and are equally spaced between the ribs i8 and along the edges of the belt. The knobs 20 are xed on the rubber covering i the same as the ribs i@ are, or iifdesired, the knobs may be attached to the belt by means oi rivets and the like.

If a belt is one that is to receive extra heavy or hard use, the edges of the belt will probably show their Wear, or will giveway rst; therefore, as shown in Fig. 6, the edges of the fabric id may be folded upon themselves as shown at ida and in the process of vulcanization, above described, the folded portion Ma will be vulcanized to the main body portion M thereby providing an extra heavy and strong edge on the belt that will materially increasethe durability and life of the belt.

There will also be instances where the belt will not-slide easily under the shoe i3 and which condition ywill cause heavy wear on the ends o1' the ascenso this esirable feature I'have provided a U- snaped clip 2l, the ends 22 oi the il turned inwardly towardeach other and provided with sharp teeth it so that the clip 2i may be placed over the ends of the ribs i6. or over the'knobs i@ and the U squeezed together so as to make the teeth i3 sink into the side walls of the ribs iii or mobs 2Q as a means of holding the clip 2i in place on the ribs i6 or knobs 0.v The 'use of the clips 2i will relieve much of the friction of the slats and knobs on the shoe i3 and will materially increase the life of the belt device.

While the foregoing description of the belt is a desirable iormof belt, it is to be understood that the belt may be made in long lengths and carried in rolls as stock belting having no special provision made in the belting for belt end splicing or joining. In this case the ends ot the belt would be joined together by any of the conventional forms of lacing or the employment o! standard belt clamps and the like.

Although I have shown and described the preferred form of my improved belt device it is to be understood that such modications of my invention maybe employed as lie within the scope of the appended claim without departing from the `spirit and intention of the invention. Now having fully described my invention, I claim:

ln a'belt of the character described, in combination, a fabric having double thick edge portions all of which comprise a base element for the belt, said base element having a rubberized coating on which is formed rubber ribs that substantially span the width of the belt, and rib like. portions spaced apart along the edges of the belt, said rib like portions and the end portions of said ribs being positioned over the double thick portion of the edges oi` the base element, and the foregoing elements and assembly thereof being vulcanized into a composite piece of beiting as shown and described. 

